"You are the salt of the earth. But if the salt loses its taste, how shall it be made salty again? It is no longer good for anything, except to be thrown out and trampled under foot by men.

But if your eye is bad, your whole body will be full of darkness. If then the light in you is darkness, how great is that darkness!

And why do you worry about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they neither toil nor spin,

Or how can you say to your brother, 'Let me take the speck out of your eye,' when there is a plank in your own eye?

If you then, who are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give good things to those who ask him!

But when they deliver you up, do not worry about how you are to speak or what you are to say; for what you are to say will be given to you in that hour;

It is enough for the disciple to be like his teacher, and the servant like his master. If they have called the master of the house Beelzebub, how much more will they call those of his household!

how he entered the house of God and ate the consecrated bread which was not lawful for him to eat, nor for those who were with him, but only for the priests?

Of how much more value is a man than a sheep! Therefore it is lawful to do good on the Sabbath."

But the Pharisees went out and plotted against him, how they might destroy him.

If Satan casts out Satan, he is divided against himself. How then will his kingdom stand?

Or how can one enter a strong man's house and plunder his goods, unless he first binds the strong man? And then he will plunder his house.

You brood of vipers! how can you speak good, when you are evil? For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks.

And the servants of the householder came and said to him, 'Sir, did you not sow good seed in your field? How then has it weeds?'

And Jesus said to them, "How many loaves do you have?" They said, "Seven, and a few small fish."

And in the morning, 'It will be stormy today, for the sky is red and threatening.' You know how to interpret the appearance of the sky, but you cannot interpret the signs of the times.

Do you not yet perceive? Do you not remember the five loaves of the five thousand, and how many baskets you gathered?

Or the seven loaves of the four thousand, and how many baskets you gathered?

How is it that you do not understand that I did not speak to you about bread? But beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees."

Then Jesus answered, "O faithless and perverse generation, how long shall I be with you? How long shall I bear with you? Bring him here to me."

Then Peter came to him and said, "Lord, how often shall my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? Up to seven times?"

And when the disciples saw it, they marveled, saying, "How did the fig tree wither away so soon?"

And he said to him, 'Friend, how did you get in here without a wedding garment?' And he was speechless.

Then the Pharisees went and took counsel how to entangle him in his talk.

He said to them, "How is it then that David, inspired by the Spirit, calls him 'Lord', saying,

If David then calls him 'Lord,' how is he his son?"

You serpents! You brood of vipers, how are you to escape being sentenced to hell?

"O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you who kill the prophets and stone those who are sent to you! How often I have longed to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you were not willing!

But how then could the Scriptures be fulfilled, that it must happen in this way?"

Then Pilate said to him, "Do you not hear how many things they testify against you?"

and said, "Sir, we remember how that deceiver said, while he was still alive, 'After three days I will rise again.'

Pilate said to them, "You have a guard; go your way, make it as secure as you know how."